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...your Oct. 26 issue you published an article on "Lost Laughter" dealing with cartoons, and pointed out that Cartoonist Batchelor had been the outstanding cartoonist from the angle of novelty, largely because of the character he had created-a politician with a silk hat but wearing little else...
Independently arrived at, Cartoonist Low's bulbous "Colonel Blimp" uttered his first upper-class fatuities in the London Evening Standard in April, 1934. Cartoonist Batchelor's fat, silk-hatted "Old Deal" first appeared in the New York Daily News...
Only one crackerjack new cartoonist has emerged in the campaign, and only one crackerjack new cartoon character. The first created the second. Early in the year, lean, bushy-haired Clarence Daniel Batchelor sat down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man, naked except for a silk hat, labeled him "Old Deal." This character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered...